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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInUS Pries Into Over 100 Trader and Banker Phones in Texting Probe – Bloomberg
The US is forcing Wall Street banks to embark on a systematic search through more than 100 personal mobile phones carried by top traders and dealmakers in the largest-ever probe into clandestine messaging on platforms such as WhatsApp. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been sending firms lists of key positions — in some cases […]
Judges Deal Latest Blow to SEC’s In-House Courts – WSJ
In the case decided Wednesday, the judges ruled that a nearly decade-old SEC enforcement action against a small hedge-fund manager was invalid because it violated his right to a jury trial. An SEC judge in 2014 found George Jarkesy liable for fraud, ordering him to pay a $300,000 fine and barring him from the securities […]
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler To Visit Appropriations Subcommittee To Discuss Budget: “The Gold Standard For Capital Markets” – Crowdfund Insider
Maintaining the gold standard comes with a cost and the SEC is submitting a budget request for operations of $2.149 billion, an 8 percent increase over FY 2022. Gensler believes this is no time to “scrimp” on resources as the complexity of markets is growing – not receding. Source: SEC Chairman Gary Gensler To Visit […]
Allianz Cooperator Stephen Bond-Nelson Used Bathroom Break to Run Out on SEC – Bloomberg
A former portfolio manager for the Allianz SE unit that agreed to pay $5.8 billion over the implosion of its hedge funds in 2020 saw no escape from the questioning of the SEC’s lawyers. So Stephen Bond-Nelson excused himself to use the bathroom and never returned. At least, not until he decided to plead guilty […]
Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots – Bloomberg
I think it is important to be clear here that Musk is lying. The spam bots are not why he is backing away from the deal, as you can tell from the fact that the spam bots are why he did the deal. He has produced no evidence at all that Twitter’s estimates are wrong, and certainly not that […]
SEC Charges Allianz Global Investors and Three Former Senior Portfolio Managers with Multibillion Dollar Securities Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI US) and three former senior portfolio managers with a massive fraudulent scheme that concealed the immense downside risks of a complex options trading strategy they called “Structured Alpha.” AGI US marketed and sold the strategy to approximately 114 institutional investors, including […]
Fight Brews Over Cost of SEC Climate-Change Rules – WSJ
The cost of proposed rules on climate disclosure is emerging as a key battleground as businesses and politicians fight over a plan to require companies to tally their impact on the environment and the risks they face from climate change. The Securities and Exchange Commission estimates the plan will raise the cost to businesses to […]
SEC Official Decries Delay Tactics Used by Some Defense Lawyers – WSJ
Although Mr. Grewal said he welcomed zealous advocacy, he added that he was frequently hearing from SEC staff about behavior that crossed the line to what he called “gamesmanship.” “Too often, we see defense counsel—sometimes even including [SEC enforcement division] alums—engage in conduct that seems to have little purpose other than to delay our investigations,” […]
U.S. Supreme Court to hear SEC bid to avoid challenge to in-house judges | Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the Securities and Exchange Commission’s bid to block a challenge to the constitutionality of its in-house tribunal brought by a Texas accountant who the agency punished after faulting her audits of publicly traded companies. The justices took up the SEC’s appeal of a lower court ruling […]
Remarks at Securities Enforcement Forum West 2022 – Gurbir S. Grewal
None of this is new. About a decade ago, one of my predecessors—Rob Khuzami—gave a speech about questionable behavior by defense counsel in SEC investigations. From slow-rolling document productions as I just described—to representing multiple witnesses with adverse interests in the same matter—to kicking witnesses during testimony to get them to answer questions a certain […]